This book was of great interest to me as a new home owner. However, Feng Shui is presented in a somewhat biased manner, as a cure-all for healing lives. Certainly, our environments can be places of healing and nurturing energy, but the bottom line is personal preference and common sense. (in life, as well as interior decorating!) Each person has their own likes and dislikes. For example, many people enjoy having high ceilings and an open floor-plan, while others prefer more "yin" environments, with lower ceilings and dimmer, smaller rooms. Socrates said most wisely, "All things in moderation." I still believe that Feng Shui needs more westernization for it to be practical, useful, and accessible to the average American or European

I found this book very helpful. It was originally reviewed by a student of mine for a college class which led me to buy Collins' other book "Feng Shui Room by Room". I like the other book even better (I would give it 5 stars). These books bring the concepts into focus for use in a western setting. I transformed two major parts of my house within the first week and it was life changing. In fact I was able to make some powerful changes the first night. Also I didn't spend a lot of money but rather used things I already owned and loved that were either in storage or in the wrong place. I found myself loving my house for the first time in many years instead of constantly thinking about moving.

Okay, I'll admit I was seduced by the subtitle, ". . . Creating Balance, Harmony and Prosperity in Your Environment." I need all the balance, harmony and prosperity I can get.

Feng Shui (that's FUNG SHWAY to us mortals) is the ancient Chinese art of placement (does anyone but me notice there's never a modern Chinese art?). I came from the 1950's Irish-American art of placement: "Use a coaster! Don't lean on your elbows! Get your feet off the coffee table!"

The idea of Feng Shui is that by correct placement of objects around my environment, I will maximize the 'Chi' or energy in and around my physical world. Hey, I believe this. In college I rearranged furniture in my dorm room every month. I continued this even after I married a man who, given the option, would nail down furniture. These days I'm too tired to change the television channel after everyone has gone to bed. In this book there's a Chinese saying: "If you want to change your life, move 27 things in your house." I do this every morning trying to figure out where my son left his gloves, his hat, or his lunch box. My life hasn't changed yet.

The author claims that "Relaxation, rejuvenation, and recreation are the three primary functions of a home." The three primary functions of my house are collapse, incoherence, and get-ready-for-the-next-round-of-laundry. The front door is the gaping mouth, where all the chi enters the home. All doors are entrances for chi, which is why doorways should never be blocked and should open freely. I haven't been able to open a door in my house without banging into something since 1988. I'm in chi debt until the millenium and then some.

Halfway through the book I learned my rooms are laid out poorly, my bedrooms in the wrong place, and my blocked doors are draining me of energy. She didn't mention what stepping on those little green army guys does to your chi. It can't be good.

Ms Collins says for optimal chi, my environment should be clutter-free, contain my treasures and photos of my loved ones, fresh flowers and natural crystals to circulate chi to energy-low areas. I was getting energized just reading this book. Hey, I could throw some stuff out, rearrange the furniture, put out my crystals and burn scented candles. Maybe there's something to this. Ancient Chinese arts have to be based on something.

I was telling my husband the highlights of all this when our eight-year-old son came into the room. In quick succession he argued about his homework, his chores, his sister, and tried to negotiate a later bedtime. When he left I slumped over in my chair. My husband looked at me and asked, "Does the book say anything about living with the 'Anti-Chi'?"

Members of our book club recently read this book. One member liked that all the women met without regard for personal or political differences. Another member would love to be invited to one of the dinner meetings (...). The description (p. 144) of the priorities of the women senators impressed another member. "Not compelling, but intermittantly inspirational", commented yet another member. One member wished that the biographies for each senator were compiled in one chapter rather than the current "bits-and-pieces" format. In addition, she would have appreciated the cover photos identified so that stories could've been matched to people. The final member was inspired to run for the school board. The afterword (in the latest addition) was a nice addition which showed the current dynamics of the Senate.

The Senate has long been characterized as the Old Boy's Club, a place where the political process is insulated from the pressures of cultural change. The nine women currently holding seats in the Senate have been, in very diverse ways, part of the winds of change that have swept through the American legislature. Nine and Counting chronicles the personal and political travails and triumphs of these extraordinary women. Though they come from very different backgrounds, they are consistently advocates for their constituents and have been important role models for women who are committed to public life. The book's narrative thrust is aided by skillful commentary from Catherine Whitley, interwoven with personal stories and comments from each of the Senators. The book is easy to read and steers away from explicitly political agendas or advocacy, instead focusing on the realities of women's lives and the importance of bringing diverse voices, male and female, Democrat and Republican, to the legislative process. As a young woman in politics, I found it fun and, in its own way, inspirational.

The nine extraordinary women of the United states Senate have collaborated with writer Catherine Whitney to present an informative and absorbing read. Following the lives of all of the women who've served, Nine & Counting intermingles the fascinating personal stories of each of the nine women currently holding office. This is the greatest number ever to serve at the same time. And that's the point. The women of the Senate want to inspire others to join them. The first woman Senator, the formidable Rebecca Felton of Georgia, was appointed as a token gesture, and allowed to serve only one day in 1922. And it was stunning to be reminded once again that women didn't have the right to vote until 1920. Political offcie for a woman was a rare accomplishment. Dedicated to the Girl Scout Organization, with all proceeds from the sale of the book going to them, Nine and Counting is a lot of fun to read. It was obviously written to inspire young women to emulate today's nine women Senators, to show them what courage and perseverance can accomplish. And that's exactly what it does. An entertaining, enjoyable read, it should become a lasting part of the historical record of this great nation.

As IT professional I found little surprises in this book about technology and the author visions how it will further influence (change) our daily lives.

Why? Because the issue Mr. Gates is writing about with such passion is really an old story nowadays. Let me explain. We have an "old" IT infrastructure in some places that is not good enough to support companies in a new economy, fortunately most of the corporate world also possess "new" PC and PC based devices connected to the Internet that are (according to Mr. Gates) fully capable and optimal way of supporting business in the 21st century. Hmm...I know at least couple of people that will strongly disagree with that (Larry and Scott where are you :-). The result is that corporate management is desperately looking for clues how to make the best use of this "new" technology to succeed in a new economy.

This book will help you get most of the answers, but (as usually) don't buy everything you read!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not negative about the book, in fact I learned a lot from Mr. Gates as businessperson. With his enthusiastic writing style, he kept me constantly rethinking from chapter to chapter about existing solutions in my company from business perspective and NOT from IT as usually!

Another good reason to read this book are real world examples from different companies, including Microsoft Corporation itself, on how you can gain business advantage with proper use of digital tools.

Last but not least, if you think that you know Mr. Gates and his company well then think again or better yet, read this book!

At first look, it might seem to be just an extended advert for Microsoft. But no, there is more to this book. It is insightful, and entertaining (thats an incongruity!!). Mr. Gates has peppered it with countless examples of companies, big and small, who could use, or are already using the concept of a Digital Central Nervous System (DCNS) to manage the flow of information, and as a logocal extension to it, managing the flow of wealth to ones advantage.

This book is not just about big business getting bigger, but also about how simple techniques of good information flow management within even the smallest of establishments, can make contented customers keep coming back to you again and again for more business.

Mr. Gates has used many simple real life analogies to drive the proverbial nail down the head about the importance of an integrated approach to managing the flow of information between the various constituents of an organization (size does not matter in this case), as also management of information flowing into and outside of it. Just the case in point is the astounding results I have myself observed unfold at Dell Corporation in Braker Lane!!

This book is a beacon and a lighthouse in our transforming world of e-anything you want. Bill Gates is an optimist and it shows. I think the whole book can be reduced to a quotation by Alfred Sloan, the Chairman of General Motors : « Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. »

Bill Gates analyzes absolutely all the consequences of the release of Information Technology in the Internet time onto the economy, society, administration, life. He does not take any precaution to sweeten or soften his message. You will follow this revolution, that is unescapable, or just plain die. When reduced to that the book is by far too long. But it is not only that.

The book studies hundreds of particular cases were the problem was confronted, solved or refused and the consequences of this acceptation to go along with modern times or of this refusal to have anything to do with such an iconoclastic approach that destroys, makes obsolete everything that was common creed in our society. Those cases are extremely well shown and described and are superbly enlightening and entertaining. Because this book is also entertaining. You will find some real pleasure in reading it.

But the book also goes beyond this. It is a book for all the CEOs and CIOs of the world. Hence it is pedagogical and didactic. It demonstrates what has to be done and it gives examples of the right solutions, and all the practical advice and even diagnosing recipes needed for any one to find their ways in the labyrinth and jungle of modern information times. The main objective then becomes to liberate thinking in business by entrusting machines with collecting and analyzing data, with the help of some human friends. When this thinking is finally liberated, business can use the speed of thought to increase its efficiency, its transformation and its progress. The general idea is that failure, slump or recession is never anything else but the inability to seize the day in these technological times.

It also, here and there, explains how Microsoft navigated through all the troubled waters of change and capitalistic success. Strange enough it makes us feel and think that the word « capitalism » itself is obsolete in global times. It is obsolete because the economy, business have to give each one member of the working team that the workers (at all levels) have to become and be for the economy to work, their total independence of thought, autonomy of decision and yet integration in the wider picture of the team. He shows marvelously that there is no business that can survive if democracy, discussion, confrontation and common objectives emerging from the aforesaid are not the very core and ethics of the economy and business. He also implies that any business has to become global to survive : global by covering the whole world ; global by envisaging the totality of a problem, product, range of products, etc ; global by the desire to dominate your field completely and totally. That leads to an understood and never expressed idea that the anti-trust regulations that are ours today are passé, old-fashioned, ineffective, even dangerous because mutilating for thought, business and the future of the world. Then competition is no longer the same thing as it used to be : the competition between several firms producing or providing the same goods or services. Competition is innovation and this can only come through the liberation of thought and through a new organization of business : a firm has to literally control its whole field of activity but including innnovation and democracy in its everyday functioning and concentrating on the core issues and activities necesary for its global role to be total, and by understanding that free business thinking will always produce the start-up that may break you if you are not one step ahead of any possible innovation. A businessperson is both a visionary prophet and a convincing guru. And keep in mind that profit, both individual and collective, is and has always been, the objective of the human race. It empowers each and all human beings with the energy to go beyond even the farthest limits and frontiers. We do not venture in hostile lands if we do not aim at getting a profit out of it. Otherwise we are forced to do it : it is slavery or the gulag.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

This book was very fast-paced; an easy read. Jackie is one of my favorite authors. I can't wait for her to finish the series. If you are a Jackie Collins fan, you won't be disappointed.

I've just finished reading the latest from popular fiction Jackie Collins, and let me tell you it is one hell of a ride! Like Stephen King and John Saul before her, Collins has peened a serial book (divided in four parts) which tells the tale of Madison Castelli, a journalist from the Big Apple, who goes to L.A. to interview Freddie Leon, the head of one of the biggest talent agency in the business. Unbeknownst to her(and us) there's a killer on the loose who murders high-priced call-girls.

Who is the murderer? Kevin Page, the back-stabbing partner of Freddie Leon? Jimmy Sica, the anchorman with the killer(not a hint!) looks? His brother Jake, the photograher? Or is it Bobby, the evasive husband of sexpot Salli T. Turner?

True to the form, Collins has sketched a wonderful, scandalously who-done-it novella that grab the reader and never let go. Her characters are all appealing, especially the one of Madison. She has the fisty don't-bleep!-with-me- Lucky Santangelo attitude, which is always a welcoming change from the tiring submassive women-characters who dominate the litterary world.

Well written, intricately structured, POWER is Collins at her best. She has successfully achieved what she'd set out to do: keep us reading way into the night!

I read the book within a couple hours, it is classic Jackie Collins with interesting characters & multiple storylines. My only complaint is that it reads as if it is the first few chapters of her usual novels, however, the "mini series" technique will involve quite a different investment! I'm anxious to see how much time evolves between books. You know how frustrating it is when you're in the middle of a good read & you can't find your book, or you forgot it? Well, welcome to L.A. Connections!!

First off I want to say that I'm a Nancy Collins fan. The other Sonja Blue books are excellent. But this one just sucks. The characters are all lame and flat, the plot is cliche, the writing is spotty, the motivations weak, the organization poor. It's VERY obvious that she just slapped it together due to the crossover deal with White Wolf. She deals poorly with the various White Wolf clans and terminology, and her "personal" vampire mythos doesn't square at all with the White Wolf world. There are lots of glaring inconsistencies.

Don't waste your money on this garbage. Read the other Sonja Blue books.

Sonya Blue, Nancy Collins's unforgettable vampire slaying heroine returns in this very violent and gripping adventure.This time Sonya who is only known as The Stranger enters the sinister
city of Deadtown.Deadtown is the bloody battleground of two competing vampire lords, Sinjon who has ruled the city for almost two centuries and Esher the utterly ruthless younger vampire who wants the city for himself.They both traffic in drugs and use psychotic gangbangers as their armies.Sonya befriends Cloudy, a aging hippy and Ryan a young boy who's mother is controlled by Esher. Sonya decides to detroy both vampires, who are called Kindred in the novel.This short novel is filled with scenes of very graphic violence and visceral action sequences.The characters like the brave boy, Ryan are also very well drawn and the villians such as Esher and his sadistic vampire henchwoman, Decima also are memorable.My own complain of this book is that is really is a dark fantasy remake of two films: Yojimbo and Clint Eastwood's spaghatti western fistful of dollars.Once I knew the similarities between the book and those movies I guessed what would happen next in the plot and I was right all of the time.If u seen these movies you will remember what does happen in the novel as well.But other than that be prepared as Sonya Blue puts you under her spell as she puts the vampires dead under for good!

Great book, I rate it at the top of all the books written by Nancy Collins (with Sunglasses after dark and Angles on Fire). I enjoyed the story line revolving around the battle for "Dead Town" and the gang/vampire warfare. The construction of the characters was very well conceived and excitiong to read. Again, a great book....

I didn't like the main character. She was a product of a dysfunctional family with a tragic sexual abuse background. Every response she had in the storyline came from a totally unconvincing response to her childhood rape. All of this is glossed over with "down-home, back to your roots" platitudes. I found nothing quaint or folksy about any of the plot. Alma compromised what integrity she had in order to gain approval from her Appalacian kin. She was a victim and responded in kind which is all too typical of victims. This novel leads us to believe if one returns to their dysfunctional past, somehow it is freeing and we become better in the process. This book does prove that being a victim of rape does not make one noble.

I was constantly amazed at the fresh insights on Appalachia I got from this book. It's not just married cousins and moonshiners. The characters were compelling, and it was easy to emphathize with them. The twists of plot kept me up reading late into the night. Great vacation read when you have time to race through to find out what happens next. I hope to see the character, Alma Brashears, in another novel.

Wonderfully written story of southeastern Kentucky and east Tennessee. Ms. Collins book is a pleasure to read. I am from her hometown, but have not had the opportunity to meet her. She describes the people of Applachia in a way that only an insider could. I hope to read many more of her books in the future.

Joe R. Lansdale's book Rumble Tumble stepped on my long-sleeping interest in murder mysteries, and woke it up. And after the shock wore off my interest and I started to laugh. And the laughing out loud continued for page after page, starting with Joan Crawford's comment on Nietzsche (via the film adaptation of Edna Sherry's "Sudden Fear") through Lansdale's take on long and pointless stories ("laborious as the Book of Mormon") and beyond. All of which makes reading satisfying. But this book is published by the Mysterious Press, and it's supposed to deliver more than just laughs. Suspense. Fear. Heroes on a quest that just might be pointless, except for the honor of doing the right thing. Danger. Pet armadillos. And sex. That's the great thing about Rumble Tumble. It delivers everything. Even the armadillo. Hap Collins is the clear-eyed Don Quixote of this tale, a little old and more than a little down on his luck. His own house was blown down by a tornado. His Dulcinea is a beautiful sexy red head named Brett, who ended her first marriage with a shovel and a match; Hap doesn't want to move in with her unless he thinks he has a good chance of not screwing up their relationship. At the same time his need to move in with her or somewhere is increasing as his current host and best friend Leonard Pine tires of Hap's lack of housekeeping habits. If Leonard is the Sancho Panza of this tale, he has extra qualities the original lacked, qualities which make him a good friend. He can help you burn down a crack house or raid a whore house, and get away with your life. His hard-eyed take on the world can do more for his friend's conscience than a first confession for a seven-year-old. Which is good for Hap: although he doesn't have a lot on his conscience as the story opens, he has a lot on his mind. He worries over what he's done and what he might do. Especially when the right thing to do becomes a rescue of Brett's daughter Tillie from a whore house in Hooty Hoot, Oklahoma. As the adventure continues from Hooty Hoot to a prairie dog farm in west Texas to a special little vacation spot for gang members down in Mexico Hap's sins of omission and, especially, commission mount up. Betrayal and murder keep them close company until the payment of the final bet. Some readers may complain that this book is just the same old themes recycled in a politically correct suspense thriller. The evidence starts with a tip of the Stetson toward ageism (all the good people are in their forties), there's a black and white friendship (Hap is white and Leonard is black ), homosexual/heterosexual friendship (Hap is straight and Leonard is gay), an acknowledgment of women's strength (Brett shoots and clubs with the rest of them), and a tribute to cross species friendship (Leonard is a man and Bill is an armadillo). The defense points to Red, a midget with a bad childhood who constantly displays his sensitivity to references to his size. When Leonard says "I just don't care for your sorry little ass" Red's response is, "There's that little stuff again." Red's problems have nothing to do with his size, and everything to do with his moral nature. He's a con man, a thief, a pimp, and a murderer: He'll do anything for money. Leonard's take on Red is, "he could talk up a good steak ranchero, but he should have died at birth." The defense rests. Rumble Tumble is a good read. Enjoy it.

This was the second Joe Lansdale book I read, and the first novel in this seris. To be honest, I didn't even know it was part of a series when I picked it up. The beauty is, it didn't matter. 'Rumble Tumble' was a fun book with good characters that didn't need knowledge of a huge backstory. I enjoyed the main character of Hap the best. He's a good man who'll do whats right, but he's not necessarily a brave man. Writing such a macho, roughneck type book, it must be tempting to make the main character a one-dimensional badass, but the people who populate this story are truly interesting characters. Can't wait to read the other books in the series.

RUMBLE TUMBLE, the fifth novel in the series, by Joe R. Lansdale continues the saga of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, beginning where BAD CHILI left off. It all starts when Hap's girlfriend, Brett Sawyer, tells him that a man called on the telephone and said that he had news about her wayward daughter, Tillie, but that it's going to cost her five hundred dollars to find out what it is. Hap and Leonard (think Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson--thanks, Dale!), accompanies Brett to the seedy motel where the voice on the phone is staying. It turns out there are two men at the motel--a redheaded midget with an attitude the size of King Kong and a stupid giant-size piece of white trash who thinks he's tougher than he actually is. Both guys want to make some quick money by telling Brett that her daughter, who's a prostitute, is being held against her will in Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma by the local crime lord, Big Jim Clemente. Naturally, it isn't long before Hap, Leonard, and Brett are heading to Hootie Hoot to rescue the trick-turning prodigal, but nothing is ever easy for these folks. After a big confrontation and a shootout in Big Jim's house of ill repute, the trio finds out that Tillie's been sent to Mexico to sexually service a gang of bikers called the Bandito Supremes as punishment for a misdeed. Hap and Leonard are two tough hombres, but the odds against rescuing Brett's daughter just got considerably higher with the addition of a biker gang of killers. Before the week is over, our two favorite amigos are going to have to deal with the treachery of a midget that can do handstands, an ex-biker turned preacher who wants redemption for his past deeds, a Texas armadillo in need of little friendship and kindness, and a shootout in old Mexico that will remind you of the ending in the movie, The Wild Bunch. RUMBLE TUMBLE delivers with full force the fun and excitement expected from any 'Hap Collins/Leonard Pine' novel. The characters are deftly drawn, the dialogue is true to the ear, and the story line has all of the necessary ingredients to fulfill one's desire for action, suspense and drama. Mr. Lansdale has created Hap and Leonard with not only a strong sense of humor, but with an avid sense of justice and honor. These two men also have a profound view of life and how to live it that gives the reader an opportunity to think about his or her own belief system. This fantastic series is more than just popcorn entertainment for the masses. It's a great author's attempt to tell a good story, while at the same time reflecting on what it means to be a decent human being and staying true to one's values. I can't recommend the 'Hap/Leonard' novels enough. This is writing that has power and honesty, and is able to touch the heart, as well as the funny bone. Now, it's time to pick up MUCHO MOJO, the third book in the series, and find out what the dysfunctional duo was like before Brett came into the picture.

While this book is an interesting read, most of this author's conclusions are either flawed or completely wrong. The watchers were neither human nor harbingers of civilization. For anyone who has studied this subject to any degree, and know what they're looking for, the ancient sources are filled with references to the nephilim and the watchers. In these works they are not portrayed as enlightened beings. They were war mongering powerseekers, both vengeful and cruel. Their offspring the nephilim were no less evil, they were marauding pillagers, cannibals and rapists to boot. They are hardly fit to be called sentient beings let alone "cilivizers". The Judeao-Christian sources are some of the few that tell of their true origin. The books of Enoch and the book of Genesis called them the Sons Of God because they were originally angelic beings prior to their fall. All the angels in the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha and the apocrypha are always described as male. My question for this author would be: If the watchers were just another race of advanced humans; where were the Daughters of God? Were they at home cooking while the sons cohabitated with the daughters of men? No, the watchers were spirit beings that became physical and this is exactly how they are described in the book of Enoch and in all the patristic writings. Why else would the watchers have reacted to women in the way they did unless they were completely new to fleshly desires and to the sight of human women.
The advanced human hypothesis does not explain their physical differences either. It is important that anyone who studies this subject seriously to know the truth of the matter and this author doesn't provide it. I give this book three stars for the authors effort and the use of unique sources, though it probably deserves a lower number. Some more accurate books are available by other authors such as Chuck Missler and Steve Quayle, but it's probably better to go to the sources themselves.

Overall, this is a well researched book. I suppose one might call this genre "investigative mythology". I particularly found memorable his assertion that St. Augustine thought the Book of Enoch was too old and thus should be excluded from canonical texts. What kept this book from getting a fifth star were several weaknesses. For example, the author's next-to-last chapter was essentially a non-academic emotional diatribe against organized religion. Additionally, his conjecture about the findings of large malformed human skulls being proof of another and superior race is essentially that, merely conjecture. Modern DNA analysis might sort out whether these are congenital malformations as a result of incestuous inbreeding or a subspecies of Homo sapiens. However, his efforts at bringing together various and disparate mythologies into a cohesive hypothesis about a lost and oft maligned race is quite entertaining and provocative. Still, I highly recommed it for your home library.

This Book is among the best 10 books written of all time in my opinion. Why? Because not only is the thesis of evidence step by step made carefuly by author Andrew Collins that Angels are real, but his research is quite relative to modern and Ancient Culture. He made me feel as if he were an angel to lead the reader and I literally walked in the foot steps of the Biblical Patriarch Enoch as he really saw the events LIVE. This Book is a most excellent companion to the Gnostic Book of Enoch with new eyes and understanding to read. The Scholarship of Andrew Collins is 2nd to none. He belongs in the ranks of Barbara G. Walker, Robert Graves, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung and Sir Laurence Gardner as a major contributor to divine connections to our own divine history. Andrew Collins has no time for fiction and tells it like it is. The field of Mythology research is now more enriched in revelation for the average reader. This Book is enough to create a solid foundation in ones personal religious beliefs in way never conceived before. Andrew Collins has proven that at one time "Heaven" was a place on Earth and perhaps some day when enough people read this book, then again Heaven on Earth will be here again only if this becomes required reading in the High Schools Colleges of tomorrow.

It is a shame this dictionary is so hard to find. It's an excellent source book for anyone, but especially for people to whom English is a second language. Definitions are almost exclusively through examples of usage. There are not quite the number of definitons as a major dictionary like Webster's International or the big Random House dictionary, but the definitons are much more user friendly.

This is an outstanding reference for both learners and anyone who deals with the English Language professionally. As a teacher of English and translator I constantly work with many different dictionaries. Collins Cobuild is surely among my favorites especially for its clear definitions and delailed explanation of the word usage.

Cobuild has been with me since my very first steps in English. It always helped me in all the stages of my learning. It won't matter how good your English get or if you're a seasoned English speaker, Cobuild will always have much to offer. Its down-to-earth explanations and rich examples give very precise definitions and understanding of the words and expressions. The pronunciation is easy to learn, and the differences between the major English variations are pointed out when necessary. It's so good to use this dictionary, that I get myself reading it for very long. Sometimes you just get it to take a look at one definition, and then you feel like exploring and reading on and on (which is great for who's learning; you learn even more!). Another important thing is that, once you get used to Cobuild's Dictionary, it'll be easier if you get other Cobuild publications, because their layout and structure are pretty the same. You won't be disappointed at all if you buy it. As another substitute for Cobuild I would also suggest the Longman Series for Learners. Both Longman and Cobuild, have unique features. Which one you're going to choose is up to you and it's a hard choice. To avoid having to choose do just like me and buy both.

I read 5 different Feng Shui books before I found this one. It was excellent. Very useful... we were actually able to make effective changes. I haven't read the first book by the author, but this one stands on it's own. The one item that I found confusing was the Chapter on the Bague Map. It didn't give an easy way to accurately apply to your home and I had to refer to another book. Overall, it was most helpful in making pratical changes and to help you think in Feng Shui ways.

My son gave me this book for Xmas, what a wonderful gift! As a beginner to Feng Shui, I find many books on the subject too complex for me at this time. I needed a book that was clear and uncomplicated. I found it! Not only did I learn how to incorporate feng shui into my home but also in my attitude and way of life. Unlike many authors I have read, Terah Kathryn Collins emphasizes the importance of changing our attitudes along with our living space. Only by combining the two can we truly utilize the power of Ch'i. I look forward to incorporating the principles I have learned from this book into my home and life!

I really enjoyed Feng Shui Room by Room. This was very informative, and easy to read. This was the second book I ever read about Feng Shui and it taught me allot. I would also recomend other books by Terah Kathryn Collins, she has a wonderful writing style, definatly not a boring read.